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er1catwork•

What were they testing? There was a U2 parked about 20miles to the NW of where StratoLaunch was hanging out

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thmOP•

Scaled Composites duct-taped two 747 together in order to use it as a air launch platform for a scaled up Pegasus rocket.

At the moment they are simply testing if that thing is actually controllable.

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er1catwork•

Thanks! I thought they had done that type of testing last year. I will say, it looked like that plane did not want to land! It was happy just generating lift cruising down the runway lol

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OpachkiBabyYouAndMe•

Huh, makes me wonder what other interesting finds I’ve glossed over due to them being labeled as something else

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